Biography

Clarence Henry Jordan was an Episcopal minister, serving in South Carolina, and at some time moving to Tarpon Springs, Florida. He was in Tarpon Springs by 1932. According to the book, "A Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopa1 Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957", by Albert Sidney Thomas (R.L. Bryan Company: Columbia, S.C., 1957), Rev. Jordan served in the following churches in South Carolina as rector:

St. John’s Parish in Berkeley from the spring of 1904 to September, 1906

Trinity in Pinopolis from 1905 to October, 1906

Church of the Nativity in Union from September, 1906 to about 1913

Calvary Church in Glenn Springs from October, 1906 to 1912

All Saints’ in Calhoun Falls (now extinct) from 1912 to ab;out 1917

Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood from 1912 to 1916

Saint Stephen’s in Willington from 1912 to 1916

All Saints’ in Clinton in 1916

Trinity Church in Abbeville in 1916

Richard G. Lynes, who knew him, wrote "He believed that all children should be raised in a barrel and fed through the bung hole (stillreferringtothebarrel)."